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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Bunk Beds

So a couple days after Christmas my husband and I decided to try it out.

I'll take you through our 3 days of construction with these impressive iphone pictures.

I know, great quality right? Anyways, here's the after.

The kids have the perfect place behind the stairs to hide. It's not huge, so it makes for an interesting family sardines game. I still have to put up some trim to cover up where the bead board meets but other than that, it's all done. The two hinged boards on the bottom come up and we can pull out two trundle beds. So that makes a total of SIX twin beds in here.

I bought the light fixtures from Home Depot for $12.00 a piece. I drilled holes in the bottom and wired them to a lamp cord. The kids love it and have already figured out how to hang barbies from the fan. And I love it because when my sisters come to visit, we can chuck all 9 kids in there and watch a movie in peace.

I found your blog the other day and went through it when my mouth hanging open. I can't BELIEVE all the stuff you do and all the cute stuff/furniture/decor that you have and find. Then this post pops up, and I don't even know what to do with myself. How in the world did you DO THAT just by looking at a picture?? I am beyond in awe! Will you move out here and be my neighbor and help me?? :) I'm officially your new stalker. Be warned. :)

Wow! Not a very fancy word, I know -but it says what I mean! They turned out fantastic. Makes me want to build some in my kitchen so that I can look at them all of the time. LOL! Thanks for sharing. :)

Your bunks are awesome. We are adding bunks to my son's room and I was just looking at lights just like yours on pbkids for $70 each. Can you do a tutorial on how you rewired the inside to make those plug in instead of hardwired?

WOWZA! I am in awe! What an amazing transformation! You & ur hubby did a terrific job! I'm a new follower of yours now, can't wait to see your next project! Stop by my place and say hi sometime :) http://macaylasroom.blogspot.com/

I have been trying to figure out a good way to putt a lot of beds into a room. This is seriously amazing!! Love the blog by the way. I'm a native here in good 'ol hot arizona. :) Mind if I ask how big the room is that you put these beds in? Thanks

this looks phenomenal! I love the way you did it and most of all i love the lights you chose!! way awesome! I found you through the not just a housewife contest, and am your newest follow! Good luck in the contest!

WOW! I have NEVER seen something like this... THANK YOU! I have five boys and NOT a huge room.we have been putting in two bunk beds (top twin and bottom full) face to face in a small rm with no room for any dressers or playing. This is perfect and I love that the bottom ones have trundles for my fifth child with out the space.Again THANK YOU FOR SHARING!

I know this is from 3 years ago, but I'm hoping you will get this message. Is there any way you can tell me what the length of the space you used was? The height of your ceiling? The height between the floor and the bottom of the bottom bunk? OH! And how wide you made your stairs? Planning on building one and don't know that i have enough room. Thanks so much.